Friday, March 30, 2018

Triduum

agnus dei—pace Denise Levertov—
is the baby born with heroin in her blood,
prenatally stained for sins of other’s making,
she plays beneath her image on gilded cross.

angus dei is a congregation not of strangers,
Or just of stained glass saints.
Its philia is marked by sacred scars
of loves fostered and abandoned.
These are people we have learned from—
the hard lessons, the hard way.

These scars,
offered at the altar
in forms of bread and wine,
are who we’ve hurt,
from whom we’ve healed.

A woman stole the 'f' key off my keyboard. It happened while I was waiting for the bathroom, three people ahead of me in line. O...

About me

"I never want to lose the story-loving child within me, or the adolescent, or the young woman, or the middle-aged one, because all together they help me to be fully alive on this journey, and show me that I must be willing to go where it takes me, even through the valley of the shadow."--Madeleine L'Engle